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refrigerate

/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/

refrigerate verb: to make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.

refrigerate: A red refrigerator sitting in an orange room
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Verb

refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)

  1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
    • Lo here hath euery fayth[f]ull man a ſure promiſe, yͭ in the feruent heate of tentacion or tribulacion […] God gyueth the faythful man yͭ hopeth in him, yͭ ſhadow of hys holy ſhoulders, which are brode ⁊ large, ſufficient to refrigerate ⁊ refreſhe the man in that heate, and in euerye trybulacion he...1534 (date written; published 1553), Thomas More, “A Dyalogue of Comforte agaynste Tribulacyon, […]. A Special Comfort in Al Temptacion.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The...
    • [T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
  2. (specifically, transitive) To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
    • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
    Synonyms:
    fridge

refrigerate meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

refrigerate in Bengali

হিমায়িত করা, ঠান্ডা রাখা

refrigerate in Malayalam

keep cold, cool (down), chill
ശീതീകരണസംവിധാനത്തിൽ വയ്ക്കുക, ശീതീകരിക്കുക, ശീതളീകരിക്കുക, ശീതളത കെെവരുത്തുക, തണുപ്പിക്കുക, തണുപ്പ് ഏല്പിച്ചു മരവിപ്പിക്കുക

refrigerate in Kannada

ತಂಪಾಗಿಸು, ತಣ್ಣಗೆ ಮಾಡು, ಕೋಡಿಸು, ಶೀತಲಗೊಳಿಸು, ತಂಪುಮಾಡು, ತಂಪಾಗಿ ಇಡು

Examples of refrigerate in a sentence

  • They are refrigerating the leftovers because they plan to eat them for dinner tomorrow.
  • A new refrigerating system will be installed in the packinghouse next month.
  • This jelly sets within a few hours when refrigerated.

All 27 example sentences with refrigerate

Synonyms of refrigerate

Forms of refrigerate

third-person singular presentrefrigerates
present participlerefrigerating
past participlerefrigerated
pastrefrigerated

Past tense of refrigerate: refrigerated

Origin of refrigerate

From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.

Words formed from refrigerate

Questions about refrigerate

What does refrigerate mean?
Refrigerate means to make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
What is refrigerate in Bengali?
Refrigerate in Bengali is হিমায়িত করা, ঠান্ডা রাখা. See Refrigerate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is refrigerate?
Refrigerate is a verb.
How do you pronounce refrigerate?
Refrigerate is pronounced /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of refrigerate?
The past tense of refrigerate is refrigerated.

Words near refrigerate in the dictionary

  1. refrig.
  2. refrigerable
  3. refrigerant
  4. refrigerants
  5. refrigeratable
  6. refrigerate
  7. refrigerated
  8. refrigerates
  9. refrigerating
  10. refrigeration
  11. refrigeration ton

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: refrigerate (page history and authors); refrigerate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refrigerate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); refrigerate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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